Rethink Mental Illness
Mental Health Support Worker
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Join Our Team as a Mental Health Support Worker
Location: Albany House, Stratford Upon Avon
🔹 Enhancement Payments: £50 per sleep-in shift (8 hours), £0.86 per unsocial hour, 1.5x hourly rate for Bank Holiday shifts
About Albany House
Albany House is a small, CQC-registered service supporting up to eight people with severe and enduring mental illness. We create a warm, recovery-focused environment where individuals can:
- Build confidence
- Develop daily living skills
- Manage finances
- Progress towards goals like education, training, or employment
Our mission: To empower each person to move forward at their own pace and live a more independent, fulfilling life.
What You’ll Do
As a Mental Health Support Worker, you’ll play a vital role in our team:
- Provide one-to-one key-worker support, building strong, professional relationships
- Conduct assessments and develop personalised support and safety plans
- Encourage mental and physical wellbeing practices
- Support with daily living skills, such as self-care, cooking, and budgeting
- Help individuals access community services
- Collaborate with mental health agencies, professionals, and local groups
- Lead safeguarding efforts and maintain a safe, supportive environment
- Keep detailed records, monitor progress, and share updates with the team
- Contribute to service improvements through feedback and teamwork
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Who We’re Looking For
We need a passionate, empathetic professional with:
- Experience supporting people with mental illness in a social care setting
- Strengths in:
- Active listening
- Empathy
- Patience
- Kindness
- Ability to use digital systems (Microsoft Office, email, internet)
- A commitment to our values and a willingness to learn and grow
- Transferable skills and a penchant for making a positive difference
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink, we believe support empowers change. Here’s how we uphold that philosophy:
🌈 Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks promoting diversity and inclusion 💙 Wellbeing Support:
- Access our Wellbeing Hub
- Use our Employee Assistance Programme
- Engage with the Unmind mental health app 🏆 Recognition & Rewards:
- Discounts/cashback offers
- PULSE rewards platform to celebrate accomplishments 🕐 Flexible Working & Generous Leave:
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off!)
- Buy/sell extra leave days 📚 Learning & Development:
- Structured onboarding
- Career training opportunities 💰 Supportive Benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (with generous options)
- Enhanced family leave
- Travel perks, including:
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle-to-work schemes 🤝 Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for referring someone to our team
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We’re focused on a workplace that reflects and champions diversity:
- LGBTQIA+ friendly: Staff networks for LGBTQIA+ communities
- Neurodivergence & disability inclusion: Proud Disability Confident Employer
- Ethnic diversity: Commitment to the Race at Work Charter
- Active encouragement: We welcome applications from:
- People with (lived experience of) mental illness
- Neurodivergent individuals
- People with disabilities/disability awareness
- Ethnoracial minorities
- All ages, including veterans
- Minority faith and spiritual backgrounds
Our goal: To dismantle inequalities, help endal disparities, and create belonging for all staff.
Becoming an Anti-Racist Organisation
Rethink aims to build a truly anti-racist culture—from operations to campaigning to service delivery. Our multi-year Race Equality Action Plan ensures accountability and progress toward this vision.
▶ Explore our anti-racist statement and join a team dedicated to challenging systemic barriers in mental health.
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